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Versatile, yet Grounded: The Rotodyne Revisited

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Heidi Ulrich

When it comes to aviation curiosities, few machines captivate the imagination like the Fairey Rotodyne. This British hybrid aircraft was a daring attempt to combine helicopter and fixed-wing efficiency into …read more Continue reading Versatile, yet Grounded: The Rotodyne Revisited→

The Rotodyne Fails to Take Off

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Al Williams

Bacon and eggs, chocolate and peanut butter, salt and pepper; some things just go together. You’d think that a mashup of an airplane and a helicopter would be great, right? The Fairey Rotodyne was just such a thing from the late 1950s and while it looked to be the wave …read more

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